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Creator
Meynell, Alice, 1847-1922
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Meynell
Physical description
120 items
Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, and correspondence.

Biographical/historical information

Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell was an English poet and essayist.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts and typescripts, and correspondence by and about the author. The manuscripts and typescripts consist of poems and essays by the author. The correspondence includes letters, dating from 1895 to 1912, from the author to John Freeman, Violet Hunt, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Clement King Shorter, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from [1909] to 1929, between various correspondents, including John Freeman, Sir Edward Howard Marsh, Francis Meynell, Wilfred Meynell, and the publishing firm of Burns, Oates & Washbourne. There are letters to Meynell from Charles Bell Burke, Aubrey De Vere, Andrew Melrose, William Kean Seymour, Elizabeth Waterhouse, and others, dating from 1875 to 1922.

The Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include W. T. H. Howe.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Processing information

Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.

Using the collection

Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 320

Conditions Governing Use

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